The only place I have seen bound controls display data (in design mode) was in J++. It was pretty cool feature too. You could see things working as you designed forms, and navigated recordsets.

BOb


>Hello,
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> I am new to creating Composite Custom Controls and am having a couple problems. My control connects to a database and retrieves data from a table using a stored procedure. Based on that data the control creates hyperlinks dynamically.
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> The First problem/question: In design mode the data is not displayed. Is this the way it should be? If not, what's wrong?
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> The second problem is how do I add custom properties to the control? I want to use the control in any project that I create and want to have a property for the connection string that is used. I have looked in two different books, in the VS.Net help and on the MS support site. All of the examples I have found do not work. Please help...
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>Thanks
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>Jim